Ah-So


Ah-So is a line of Asian sauces and marinades from Allied Old English, Inc., Port Reading, New Jersey. This garlicky, sweet, sticky, brightly red marinade is popular in the Northeast United States. A plastic squeeze bottle version exists. This sauce falls into the American Chinese cuisine genre of Chinese cooking and aims to replicate the sweet, smokey flavor of boneless spareribs found on the menus of most Chinese take-out restaurants. The sauce contains corn syrup, fermented soy beans and garlic.

The name

The expression "ah so" comes from Japanese ā sō desu ka?, which starts with an entirely coincidental similarity to the English "ah so". Although sometimes used as mock-Chinese, it is purely Japanese in origin.